SPRINGFIELD, NJ - Valcor Scientific, a division of Valcor Engineering Corp. is offering its new SV700 Series of inert, solenoid operated micro pumps. Celebrating its 50th year, Valcor Scientific has been a leader in the design and manufacture of a broad range of pumps and valves for analytical chemistry, biomedical, medical instrumentation, and light industrial applications.

Typical applications for Valcor's new SV700 Series are dispensing reagents in clinical instrumentation, dispensing dilutants in analytical instrumentation, dispensing lubricants in various other industry-specific applications.

The SV700 Micro Pumps feature:

• Small size to meet market demands
• Compatibility with wide range of fluids and standard materials
• Positive shut-off to prevent siphoning when not in use
• Easy to set required dispense volumes.

Less than 3" high, with a diameter of 1.10", and a dispense volume of 50 to 250 �l, Valcor's new SV700 Series is specifically designed to meet the demands of the instrumentation marketplace.

It can reliably dispense small volumes of low-density fluids with a low wattage solenoid (5.3 watts). A broad selection of standard materials of construction is available to allow for a wide range of fluid compatibility.

Manufactured with a glass-filled polypropylene pump head, and either EPDM or Viton Elastomers, the SV700 is available with a variety of fluid connections. These include: �-28 flat bottom ports, tube stubs, and a surface mount manifold configuration. Offered in both 12 and 24 VDC, the standard electrical connection is 10" TFE insulated flying leads. Amp and Molex connections can be provided.

Valcor's SV700 series of Micro Pumps was specifically designed to be user friendly in both its ease of installation and settability. Several configurations of the SV700 Micro Pump-Series are being offered, all versions based on a core group of components. This allows for ease of field service and conversion between both elastomeric compounds and port configurations.

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Offshore proofing yourself need not involve radical shifts in Careers away from IT. Those drastic steps may not be needed if you understand what works and what does not in IT Offshoring!Notwithstanding all the insanity with offshoring that is going right now, If you are in IT, I would not move away from it. You may just need to make sure you are in environments where offshoring does not work! Here are five simple ways to do it:

1. Positions Dependent Upon Constant Communication - Offshoring is not suitable for IT positions that are dependent upon constant communication - Business Intelligence and Reporting is one such area. Constant communication and changes are the norm rather than exceptions. This may not be because the business users are fickle. It's just the nature of Business Intelligence and Reporting.

2. Positions That Involve Lots of Internal and External Touchpoints - A good example might be IT careers in Consulting Companies that require interactions with customers here. More touchpoints mean bodies that are in the same time zones as yourself. They may try offshoring those positions but they will not work in the longer run.

3. Positions where Requirements are Changing Fast all the time - Fast growing businesses do these to you. Requirements cannot be frozen long enough for them to follow any process. That may also mean you need to be nimble on your feet, be familiar with Rapid Prototyping and faster release cycles if you are in software development. Good examples might be fast growing online companies.

4. Positions where Technology is the Core Set of Products - For Intellectual Property reasons as well as speed with which you need to do things (not very mature companies but younger ones) IT positions within such companies cannot be outsourced easily without pain. If you join a Retailer in their IT department, IT is a support process. It is subject more to outsourcing as it is not a core competency.

5. IT Careers that involve fast changing technologies - RFID, Wireless are all examples of fast changing technologies that cannot step outside the U.S simply for availability reasons. Wireless standards (Wide-area, telecom not local area) vary from country to country and is resistant to outsourcing simply for the reason that it cannot be done elsewhere. Fast changing technologies like RFID may require resources - people, knowledge, access to information, capital, etc that are very localized. They cannot be simply outsourced.

That said, already Computer Science enrollments are shrinking in schools. This may drastically alter the demand-supply equation in local IT workers favor soon. Hang in there, hide out for a while and the sun will come out. Hype machines work both ways, very optimistic and very pessimistic. Currently it is painting an unwarranted pessimistic picture. I don't believe it at all, if not for any reason other than simply what experience teaches you.

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Area planted to fall potatoes in 2009 is estimated at 932,900 acres [=377,540 hectare], up slightly from the 2008 crop year [930,500].

Harvested area is forecast at 922,700 acres, also up slightly from 2008.

Idaho potato growers increased planted area 5 percent from last year but these [last year] are the lowest acres planted since 1986. As of July 5, crop conditions were rated 95 percent good to excellent.

Washington potato producers planted 6 percent fewer acres than a year ago. Cool, wet conditions delayed planting throughout the State. Significant planting did not begin until early-April but high temperatures late in the month enabled progress to advance quickly. By late-May, virtually the entire crop was in the ground.

Oregon potato growers increased planted area 2 percent from last year. The crop got off to a good start without any widespread delays to planting. In Colorado, planted area dropped 2 percent from the previous year as growers continued to voluntarily limit acreage for water conservation and supply management. Planting finished slightly ahead of schedule and the crop was rated in mostly good condition.

Fall potato planted area remained unchanged from last year in California, Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Potato growing areas in Maine received frequent and intense rain events during June after a cool, dry planting season. Northern areas of Aroostook County did not receive as much rain as southern locations and excellent crop conditions were reported. Further south, conditions ranged from fair to good, depending on moisture levels.

Michigan’s planted area increased 5 percent from 2008. Plants were in good to excellent condition, benefitting from above normal rainfall this season. Planted area also increased in Nebraska, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico.

Growers in North Dakota planted 2 percent fewer acres than last year. Planting began later than normal and remained behind average throughout the planting season. As of June 28, crop condition was rated 63 percent good to excellent.

Planted area also decreased from last year in New York and Minnesota.

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PHILADELPHIA, PA For years controversy has surrounded whether electronic medical records (EMR) would lead to increased patient safety, cut medical errors, and reduce healthcare costs. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a way to get another bonus from the implementation of electronic medical records: testing the efficacy of treatments for disease.

In the first study of its kind, Richard Tannen, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, led a team of researchers to find out if patient data, as captured by EMR databases, could be used to obtain vital information as effectively as randomized clinical trials, when evaluating drug therapies. The study appeared online last week in the British Medical Journal.

Our findings show that if you do studies using EMR databases and you conduct analyses using new biostatistical methods we developed, we get results that are valid, Tannen says. Thats the real message of our paper this can work.

In January 2009, President Barack Obama unveiled plans to implement electronic medical records nationwide within five years, arguing that such a plan was crucial in the fight against rising health care costs. Of the nearly $900 billion in Obamas planned stimulus package currently before the United States Senate, $20 billion is proposed for electronic health records.

Tannen says he and his group recognized that the large EMR databases containing compiled medical information could potentially give researchers the ability to study groups reflective of the total population, not just those who participate in clinical trials, and circumvent studies too costly or unethical for clinical trials. However, such databases contain observational information, which critics argue do not offer the same level of control as randomized trials.

Our study cautiously, yet strongly, suggests that enormous amounts of information within electronic medical records can be used to expand evidence of how we should or shouldnt manage

healthcare, Tannen says.

To address criticisms of observational studies, Tannens group had to first determine a way to use EMR databases for insights on therapy efficacy and then prove the results they found were valid.

Beginning six years ago, Tannens team selected six previously performed randomized trials with 17 measured outcomes and compared them to study data from an electronic database the UK general practice research database (GPRD), which included the medical records of roughly 8 million patients. Treatment efficacy was determined by the prevalence of cardiovascular outcomes, such as stroke, heart attack and death.

After using standard biostatistical methods to adjust for differences in the treated and untreated groups in the analysis of the database information, Tannen found that there were no differences in the database outcomes compared to randomized clinical trials in nine out of 17 outcomes.

In the other eight outcomes, Tannens group used an additional new biostatistical approach they discovered that controlled for differences between the treated and untreated groups prior to the time the study began. By using the new biostatistical method instead of the standard approach, the researchers showed there were no differences between the outcomes in the EMR database study compared to the randomized clinical trials.

Though Tannen warns the ability to use EMR databases from the United States to measure the efficacy of therapies will take more than 10 years of national data, he says the results of his study should serve as a catalyst for more researchers to explore the accuracy of the information that can be obtained using EMR database studies.

An appropriately configured EMR database could offer an invaluable tool, but we need to get to work now on how to configure it properly, Tannen says. If we dont worry about this issue right now and promote a higher investment in the area of EMR research, well lose an opportunity, an enormous health opportunity for EHR, Medical Transcription, Medical Billing Software

Miniature fluid isolation valves are designed to control acids and basic fluids and reagents in applications where the fluid must be completely separated from the valve control mechanism

The new Asco Scientific 110 Series of miniature fluid isolation valves is designed to control acids and basic fluids and reagents in applications where the fluid must be completely separated from the valve control mechanism.

Rated for a minimum of 1 million cycles operating life, the Series 110 valves are designed high levels of reliability in equipment such as medical and gas analysers and also biotechnology operations.

The 110 Series are direct acting type valves, a design that enables hermetic separation between the fluid and valve parts to prevent contamination, and also ensures reduced heat exchange between the valve coil and fluid.

Ideal for both shut-off and fluid diversion tasks, the 110 Series valves are available in both 2/2 normally closed and open versions and also 3/2 universal types.

The 110 series achieves high levels of reliability via a direct acting rocker design, which is both highly efficient and ensures a very small internal volume within the valve to deliver maximum accuracy in analytical operations.

In addition, the combination of the stainless steel rocker mechanism and an EPDM diaphragm poppet means that no metal parts that could cause contamination come into contact with the fluid.

To enable them to resist the corrosive mediums with which they are used, the 110 Series valves have Trogamid bodies and covers: the latter being transparent, enabling the flow of fluid within the valve to be observed.

In addition all internal valve parts, excepting the diaphragm poppet, are manufactured from stainless steel.

Integration of the 110 Series into analytical machines is simplified by the availability of plain, push-on connections for flexible tubing.

Electrical connection is also simplified by the use of spade connectors on the moulded solenoid coil.

The coils themselves offer the reliability benefits of class "F" installation, and the bonus for mobile use of operation on both 12V and 24v DC.

In addition to providing the Series 110 valves as discrete units, Asco Scientific also provides the valves as a pre-assembled system, mounting up to five of them on support plates.

This is part of wider service designed by Asco Scientific to provide bespoke multi-function modules for use in application areas such as dentistry, microbiology, analysis and respiratory control.

This approach, with assemblies designed and delivered as fully functional units, both reduces costs and speeds-up the overall construction time of the equipment to which the pre-engineered systems are applied.

Further information regarding the Asco Scientific new medical and analytical range of valve products is contained within a new 80-page catalogue produced by the company.

Free copies of the catalogue are available on application to Asco Joucomatic.

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